Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He has all his life been fascinated with music.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 700 pp. Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Amethyst (110 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. His hair is long and red with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small tan clips. His beard is black, braided, and well cared for. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Zaffrab was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Emotional, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his pickaxe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Pikar was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Expand his business; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Antitoxin. 1 Everburning torch. 4 Acid flasks. 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a worn and beaten armor. His red hair is long and unkept. He has brown eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Gûnd isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Orc unity. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. While he appears to be a normal Half-Orc, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic, Insane. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 5000 gp. Chrysoprase (30 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Amethyst (60 gp). White opal (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears grey trousers with tan and yellow striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, and carries scythes. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Gifted from a young age, Traubon studied abroad. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 190 gp. 3 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: This tall, slender man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull grey iron scale mail. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his singing with anyone who is interested.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Engraver and was forced into it by his family; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic, Fighting. Bonds: Family, Poor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1100 gp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp).

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She wears a colorful flower in her black hair. Her black eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Painter but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1500 gp. Deep green spinel (60 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'7" and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull blue iron scale mail. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy black hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. In his 15th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Insomniac, Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Guardian, Mentor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he has the majority of his body covered in plate. His brass crest is knotted and matted. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Pacifist, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 4000 sp. Malachite (16 gp).